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The U.S. is reinstating a blockade on the street of Hormuz, after the U.S. and Iran stepped
“up attacks around the critical passageway.”
President Trump is also reversing his demand for a 20 percent toll on ships going through the street, and will instead strike new investment deals with countries in the region. And Piers' Deepa Shiveram has more.
Oil is flowing like never before, the President said in a post on social media.
In the same post, Trump said the street of Hormuz would now be open for all ships, except for Iran. He also backtracked on his plan to impose a 20 percent toll on cargo coming through the street. Now, Trump says, instead of the toll, some countries in the region will make big investments
in the U.S. Trump says leaders of those countries called and said they wanted something different. "We would like to invest tremendously in the United States as opposed to charging the U.S. Trump claims these new investments will bring factories and plants into the U.S.,
“which will create, quote, millions of high-paying jobs, but no details were provided.”
Deepa Shiveram and Piers news the White House." The second fatal ice-shooting in a week has prompted the Trump administration to change how ice officers conduct business in terms of traffic stops and use of deadly force. And Piers' serial, Martina's Beltron, has more. The HSS policy on papers says deadly force cannot be used solely to prevent someone from fleeing
unless the person poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm to the agent or others. Now, the issue is that in these two last cases in Maine and Texas, we haven't seen video evidence that backs up the HSS claims that in Texas, the man, in their words, weaponized his car against the ice agent, and that in Maine, the man posed a public safety threat.
So advocates, politicians, and community members are calling for independent investigations. In Piers' serial, Martina's Beltron, reporting. New York Governor Kathy Hockel signed an executive order placing a moratorium on large data center projects in the state. Samuel King, with the New York Public News Network reports, is the first moratorium of its kind in the country.
The moratorium will pause state environmental permits for hyperscale data center projects, or those which will use more than 50 megawatts of electricity. Governor Hockel says that will give the state time to come up with a regulatory framework that protects the utility ratepayers and environment. Guard rills, to reduce the risk to our energy grid, minimize land disruption, noise pollution,
and protect our natural resources, especially our water supply. Tech and Y.C., which represents New York City's tech industry, says some parts of Hockel's order makes sense, but says the pause will drive needed investment elsewhere, hurting the state's economy. For NPR News, I'm Samuel King, an Albany.
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New data from UNICEF shows that 77 percent of infants globally last year were fully vaccinated
against measles, a highly infectious disease that's killed more than 750 children in a major outbreak in Bangladesh. In most cases, countries go through UNICEF to buy vaccines, about 2.2 billion doses a year. But when Bangladesh's interim government took power in late 2024, the country decided to procure vaccines on its own.
Dr. Ephraim Lemango is global chief of immunization for UNICEF.
“It usually leads to delays, and that's why it's exactly happening in Bangladesh, and that”
delay in concluding the procurement, which finally ended up not succeeding, late with significant and extended stockups. Some clinics ran out of the measles vaccine entirely. Lemango says this left Bangladesh vulnerable to the major outbreak going on today, and while the new government has moved quickly to vaccinate kids now, a lot of the damage has already
been done. Larry Biscarren and pair news, Washington. Writer Eegean Carroll, the woman who sued President Trump for sexual abuse and defamation,
has now received the judgment, more than $5 million she was awarded as part of a civil
judgment against Trump. In 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, and that he defamed her on social media, calling her allegations a hoax and a lie, Trump's been fighting this civil conviction, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear as appeal.
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